This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … leads to wealth inequalities. However, the intra-household processes appear to be efficient in terms of welfare, as … increases in any source of household income are associated with decreases in intra-household inequality, as measured by the …

A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in … and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some … billionaires acquired wealth through political connections, the effect of politically connected wealth inequality is negative …

-paying jobs. This led to a dramatic increase in inequality in labor earnings during the pandemic. Simulating standard unemployment … the pandemic associated UI and CARES benefits, reversing the increases in labor earnings inequality. These lower income …

This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …

framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other structural and policy-related features, shapes the trade-off between … inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries.Such a cumulative process shapes …

equality of opportunity. Finally, it provides an empirical analysis of equality of opportunity for higher education in Italy …

Around the world, governments have been asking their citizens to practice physical distancing and stay at home to …

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy …